Royal Roost/Roost Album Discography
by David Edwards and Mike Callahan
Last update: September 10, 2005

The Roost label was founded in 1949 by Arthur Faden, Bill Faden, Monty Kay and Ralph Watkins in
New York City. Shortly after founding the label, Jack Hooke and Sammy Kaye acquired the label from
the founders. In 1950 Jack Hooke purchased Sammy Kaye's interest. From 1950 until 1958 the label
was run by Jack Hooke and Teddy Reig. The output of the label was almost entirely jazz.

The label was called both Roost and Royal Roost. In August 1958, Morris Levy purchased the label and
it was combined with Roulette. The Roost name continued to be used by Roulette for some period of
time, but eventually the Roost artists were transferred to the Roulette label itself.

The Roost and Royal Roost label was first green, then blue, with silver print. "ROOST" (or 'ROYAL
ROOST") was on the perimeter of the label above the center hole. Green labels were used for the first
press runs (perhaps 250-400 copies) on the original 400 series at least up until RLP-421. Later runs
used the blue labels.

We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publications is an
information web page. We are not a catalog, nor can we provide the records listed below. We have no
association with Roost/Royal Roost Records. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in this
discography (which are all out of print), we suggest you see our Frequently Asked Questions page and follow the
instructions found there. This story and discography are copyright 1998, 1999, 2005 by Mike
Callahan.

RST-2205 - Seldon Powell - Seldon Powell [1955] Go First Class/Why Was I Born/Love
Is Just Around The Corner/Someone To Watch Over Me/Count Fleet/Autumn Nocturne/Swingsville
Ohio/Summertime

RST-2206 - Beverly Kenney Sings for Johnny Smith - Johnny Smith Quartet & Beverly
Kenney [2/56] Surrey With The Fringe On Top/'Tis Autumn/Looking For A Boy/I'll Know My
Love/Destination Moon/Ball And Chain/Almost Like Being In Love/Stairway To The Stars/There Will
Never Be Another You/This Little Town Is Paris/Moe's Blues/Snuggled On Your Shoulder

RST-2211 - Moonlight in Vermont - Johnny Smith with Stan Getz [1956] Moonlight In
Vermont/Tabu/Tenderly/Cavu/Ghost Of A Chance/Jaguar/Stars Fell On Alabama/Where Or When/I'll Be
Around/Cherokee/Yesterdays/Vilia

RST-2216 - New Quartet - Johnny Smith [1956] It Never Entered My Mind/Samba/Black
Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair/Pawn Ticket/S'Wonderful/You'd Be So Nice To Come Home
To/Blue Lights/Montage/Bag's Groove/'Round About Midnight

RST-2218 - Beverly Kenney, Jimmy Jones and Basie-Ites - Beverly Kenney, Jimmy Jones &
Basie-Ites [4/57] Nobody Else But Me/The More I See You/Old Buttermilk Sky/I Never Has Seen
Snow/A Fine Romance/Who Cares What People Say//Makin' Whoopee/The Charm Of You/Isn't This A
Lovely Day/Mairzy Doats/My Kind Of Love/Can't Get Out Of This Mood

RST-2226 - Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers - Sonny Stitt [1957] Best Things In Life Are
Free/Engos/Bloos/It Might As Well Be Spring/Body And Soul/Cherokee/I Didn't Know What Time It
Was/People
Will Say We're In Love/Bloosey/Birds' Eye

RST-2230 - Saxophones of Sonny Stitt - Sonny Stitt [1958] Happy Faces/Am I Blue/I'll
Be Seeing You/When You're Smiling/In A Little Spanish Town/Them There Eyes/Back In Your Own
Back Yard/Foot Tapper/Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child/Shadow Waltz/Wind Up

RST-2231 - Selections from the Flower Drum Song - Johnny Smith [2/59] You Are
Beautiful/I Enjoy Being A Girl/Sunday/Hundred Million Miracles/Grant Avenue/Love Look Away/Like A
God/Finale

RST-2232 - And I Thought About You - Johnny Hartman [1959]

RST-2233 - Easy Listening - Johnny Smith [1959] When I Fall In Love/It Might As Well
Be Spring/I Didn't Know What Time It Was/Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair/Like Someone In
Love/You Don't Know What Love Is/Isn't It Romantic/Foggy Day/I Remember The Corn Fields/Scarlet
Ribbons/People Will Say We're In Love/Nearness of You

RST-2235 - Little Bit of Stitt - Sonny Stitt [1959] When The Red Red Robin/For All We
Know/I'm Confessin' That I Love You/Cocktails For Two/Star Eyes/On A Slow Boat To China/Laura/J.B.
Blues/Don't Take Your Love From Me/After The Late Late Show

RST-2238 - Designed for You - Johnny Smith [12/59] Fools Rush In/I'll Remember
Clifford/The Lady Is A Tramp/There Will Never Be Another You/Autumn Leaves/Mood
Indigo/Sentimental Journey/Three Little Words/My Romance/Sometimes I'm Happy/I'll Take Romance

RST-2239 - Dear Little Sweetheart - Johnny Smith [1960] My Dear Little
Sweetheart/Indian Summer/Softly As In A Morning Sunrise/All The Things You Are/It's So Peaceful In
The Country/Once In A While/Flamingo/Spring Is Here/Violets For Her Furs/It Never Entered My Mind

RST-2242 - Guitar and Strings - Johnny Smith [1960] Things We Did Last Summer/Inch
Worm/Yesterdays/What Is There To Say/Stormy Weather/Where Or When/Have You Forgotten So
Soon/Golden Earrings/Deep Purple

RST-2243 - Johnny Smith Plus The Trio - Johnny Smith [1960] I Got It Bad (And That
Ain't Good)/Let's Fall In Love/I Can't Get Started/You Took Advantage Of Me/Some Of These Days/Over
The Rainbow/Out Of Nowhere/Prelude To A Kiss/Un Poco Loco/Hippo The Sentimental Hippy/It's You
Or No One

RST-2244 - Stittsville - Sonny Stitt [1960] Angel Eyes/It Depends on You/Stormy
Thursday/Embraceable You/It Could Happen to You//But Not for Me/Memories of You/I Cried for You
(Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over me)/Bright as Snow/Spinning